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Sensory neurons

sensory neuron

1. (Science: anatomy) A neuron that receives input from sensory cells.

2. (Science: physiology) sensory cells such as cutaneous mechanoreceptors and muscle receptors.


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... ( in cranial nerve (anatomy) ) Cranial nerves are made up of motor neurons, sensory neurons, or both. The vagus nerve is one of the most important; it extends to many ...

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by sanjidcapa
Tue May 05, 2009 9:15 am
 
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Questions about Neurons

That wouldn't happen, because they would need to be intermediate neurons, and sensory neurons are only afferent.

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by plasmodesmata11
Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:01 pm
 
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Questions about Neurons

Alright i have look on google and i can find no answers to this hypothetical situation... Ok. If you have a Sensory Neuron next to another Sensory Neuron and another behind that going along in a long circular chain that ends at the first Senory Neuron, and a Stimulus is applied ...

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by Swordy
Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:03 pm
 
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Topic: Questions about Neurons
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... required of eye design . No matter how the memory system is designed sensory Input is presented resulting in an Output action state based on prior ... be made for attaching to a surface, presenting another challenge for neurons to coordinate. If this is one of the steps in the emergence of intelligence ...

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Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:58 am
 
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peripheral nervous system

... doesn't have voluntary control over it? So in the patellar reflex, sensory neurons sensing strech in a muscle spindle of a skeletal muscle and motor neurons triggering ...

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by kk
Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:38 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: peripheral nervous system
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